However, after 60 years the increase in population demanded an expansion of the station and it was approved in 1972.

The tree was to be cut down to make room for the new structure.

Officials believe that the tree is about 700 years old and its history is full of loving people and a little bit of superstition.

Kayashima station opened right next to the camphor tree in 1910.

There’s a train station in the Northeast suburbs of Osaka, Japan, which proves that man and nature can coexist in harmony.

Its main feature is a giant camphor tree, stretching out through a hole in the platform.

But there's a new relationship buster: the smartphone With more and more people using the attention-siphoning devices – the typical American checks his or her smartphone once every six-and-a-half minutes, or roughly 150 times each day – phubbing has emerged as a real source of conflict.

Most know what it's like to be phubbed: You're in the middle of a passionate screed only to realize that your partner's attention is elsewhere.

The modern ocean is a scary place, filled with barracuda, sharks, super-squids, and possibly Cthulhu.

However, no matter what we find in the depths these days, none of them seem to come close to the giant terrors that roamed the seas in Earth’s past; giant sea-lizards, monster sharks and even “hypercarnivorous” whales.

But anyone who tried to cut down the tree was doomed with some sort of unfortunate event.